To be fair, I don't dislike the rain. I like being warm and in bed on a rainy day, and I wouldn't be the only one in trouble if we went through a drought. But I've worn glasses since the second grade (yeah, that's a while ago), which have kept me from enjoying being in the rain from then on. I used to wish that those gag glasses with the windshield wipers were real, but it wasn't meant to be. A few spots of rain are usually no big deal; any more rain and my corrected eyesight is basically nullified. I prefer not to carry an umbrella because I have a tendency to leave them behind, but I really don't have a choice if I want to keep my glasses dry.
And then there's my desire not to get wet and not to eat a cold lunch. No umbrella can keep you entirely dry from the wind-angled rain, and apparently that's the norm up here. I actually intended to go out on Sproul Plaza since other news staff members were going to be out there tabling, which I would have done if I had packed a sandwich or something else I could have eaten cold. What I had, though, was Kraft macaroni and cheese with bacon, and that definitely needed to be eaten warm if not hot.
So I stayed inside. I took the photo in front of a window near the news editors' desks, one that overlooks Lower Sproul Plaza. Even on a gray day, the campus is gorgeous. The expanse of buildings gets lost into the fog, and the hustle and bustle below dissipates into a pitter-patter chorus.
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